Village in Southwestern, North Macedonia
Delogoždi (Macedonian: Делогожди, Albanian: Dollogozhdë) is a village in the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia.
Geography
Delogoždi lies south of Mountain Karaorman in an altitude of 800 meters and the east borders with the villages Dzhepin (1.6 km) and Koroshishta (2.3 km), in the south with the villages Livada (2.8 km) and Biceva (3.7 km), to the southwest with the village of Novo Selo (3.1 km), to the west with the village of Dolno Tateshi (2.9 km), and to the north with the village of Poum (2.9 km). The village is located northwest of the city of Struga, at a distance of 11 km.
Demographics
At the end of the 19th century, Delogoždi was an Albanian village, part of the Struga nahia in the Ohrid kaza of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov from 1900, Delogoždi had 730 inhabitants, all Albanians.[2]
According to the 1943 Albanian census, Delogoždi was inhabited by 1147 Muslim Albanians.[3]
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 2,920 inhabitants.[4] Ethnic groups in the village include:[4]
As of the 2021 census, Delogoždi had 1,714 residents with the following ethnic composition:[5]
- Albanians 1,668
- Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 46
References
- ^ Macedonia and Adrianople Population Statistics from 1873, Sofia, 1995, p. 104-105
- ^ Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 253
- ^ "Ethnic/Religious composition of Dibër and Tetovë prefectures".
- ^ a b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 90.
- ^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
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